Lab 13: Week 4 of Research
Ashton Peckinpah
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Objective: To finalize the data and research components of the project. Overall conclusions were drawn and written as a group. Then, the final poster was put together and creative components were made.
Methods:
- Obtain Dot Plot from Lathan
- Create results flow chart.
- Draw overall conclusions.
- Make final poster as a group.
In conclusion: A dot plot was created in order to assist in the comparison. The AM portion of the dot plot is noticeably lighter, meaning that there is less similarity. There is even more similarity within the AM sequence than with the AN or AK cluster.
Lastly, nucleotide sequence lengths were compared because we believed that varying lengths of the sequences could explain the extremely small overall value of similarity.
After comparing the data, the dot plot, and the sequence length, overall conclusions were drawn. The AM sequence was too short to be directly compared to the AN and the AK sequences. The AM sequence is so short that is has limited room to be similar to the other sequences. Moreover, the AN and AK sequences still very by about 500 base pairs, further explaining the difference in similarity. Ultimately, we concluded that tape measure proteins need to be more similar in length in order to complete and accurate comparisons.
Finalized Poster:
